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Re: [epp-dev] Still justified to ship Mylyn with almost all distributions?
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Hi Arne,
I believe contributions are part of the spirit of Eclipse projects. Therefore, I've re-opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/480696. Would you be interested in providing the Gerrit review to move the Tasks View into the Outline view stack?
-Gunnar
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Gunnar Wagenknecht
gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://guw.io/
> On Jul 4, 2018, at 15:35, Deutsch, Arne <Arne.Deutsch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> not sure how requests to remove plugins from eclipse distributions are
> to be formulated nor how the process is to initiate such a removal. But
> what I observed is this: Mylyn seems to be more or less dead.
>
> If I look at the commit log there where 15 comits in the last 6 month.
>
>
> http://git.eclipse.org/c/mylyn/org.eclipse.mylyn.git/log/
>
>
> Mostly they were concerned with update of plugin versions and adaption
> to photon release. End of 2017 there where four month in succession
> without any commit at all. Hence from a community perspective there seem
> to be little interest to fix issues, let alone implement new features.
>
> One of the first things I do myself when starting a fresh eclipse is
> closing the Mylyn Task View. Probably there are users that actually use
> Mylyn. But my question is: Is it still justified to ship this plugin
> with almost all eclipse distributions?
>
>
> https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/compare.php?release=photon
>
>
> For me it would be better to remove it from eclipse main distributions
> and allow additional installation through an update site. I guess the
> majority will be more happy with smaller footprint, while users that
> actually need Mylyn can still install it. Happy for your feedback about
> this request.
>
> Kind regards,
> Arne Deutsch
>
>
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